Anonymous Marking

Learn how to set up and manage anonymous marking in your assessments

Anonymous marking allows teachers to provide feedback on submissions without seeing student names in the Cadmus class list or your chosen marking tool (Turnitin Feedback Studio or Canvas Speedgrader).

In this article, we will cover:

1. Turning on anonymous marking
2. Accessing anonymous submissions
3. Revealing student names in the Marking tab

Turning on anonymous marking

While editing your assessment instructions, you can turn on anonymous marking from the Requirements page. Be sure to decide on your marking preferences before releasing the assessment, as this setting cannot be changed once students have made submissions.

Follow these instructions to set up anonymous marking:

• Blackboard, Moodle, and D2L users
• Canvas users

Accessing anonymous submissions 

When you are ready to mark, navigate to the Marking page. From here, click Mark to be taken to the submission.

Revealing student names

When anonymous marking is turned on, your class list will show anonymised names in the Drafts and Marking pages. To de-anonymise, please follow the steps outlined below.

1. Navigate to the class list on the Marking page.
2. Select the student using the checkbox next to the student’s "name" (e.g. Student 7, Student 18, etc). To apply the changes to the entire cohort, tick the checkbox located at the top-left corner of the class list.
3. Click Reveal names.
4. Click Reveal all to confirm.
   Revealing student names will be recorded in the Cadmus system. Please ensure that you have a valid reason to reveal student names.